Do I have the right RAM?

[tinpanalley]

Hi everyone,

I have this system...
emachines ET1161-03: http://www.emachines.com/products/products.html?prod=ET1161-03

And I just bought this RAM...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001ISJ964

I thought I did my research but did I buy the wrong RAM? If not, can anyone think of any reason why I get blue screen PFN_LIST_CORRUPT messages? I reinstalled every piece of hardware one by one, it was definitely caused by the RAM. I've put the original dimms in there (2 x 512, 2 x 1GB) and it's all normal again, no crashes.

There's gotta be more to the specs that I don't know about. Perhaps it has something to do with Dual Channel slots that are on my motherboard (orange and purple). See, I have done SOME research.

Any help would be awesome guys. I've got a 64-bit system and would LOVE to be able to use the new RAM I bought.

THanks!

 

[tinpanalley]

Oh, by the way, the two 512s were in the orange slots and the 2 1GBs were in the purple slots. I replaced the 2 512s with the 2 new 2GBs.
...in case that helps.

 

[clarkjd]

It only does you good if you have a 64-bit Operating system.otherwise, you'll only be able to use 3.25 GB of your 6GB on memory.

 

[tinpanalley]

Yes, I do have a 64 bit OS.

 

[clarkjd]

Yes, I do have a 64 bit OS.

So, does it work?

 

[tinpanalley]

The OS is fine. It's the RAM that keeps crashing out on me.

Sorry for the noob-ness but I've tried to do all the research I can. All I need to know (if someone would be kind enough to tell me) is whether the RAM I purchased is the right RAM for this computer. I have done all the research I can think of, I have even spoken to emachines reps who didn't want to help me because I was out of warranty and everything I've seen tells me there is no reason why this RAM shouldn't work. But when I put it in my system it causes crashes and the RAM that CAME with the system runs fine.

The system came with 2 512s and 2 1GBs. All Samsung, all PC2-5300. The ones I got are 2 2GBs and are PC2-6400, all PNY. But as far as I have read, that's not an issue. Could it be that PNY simply doesn't wanna play with the Samsungs? Is that something that occurs ever? Should I get 2 more PNYs to go with the ones I've already bought?

Any info would be awesome guys. I have the system ready, the 4GB of RAM that came with the system are fine but I just wanna use the new ones to bump up to 6GB.

THANK YOU!!!!

 

[clarkjd]

Have you tried removing all the old memory and just running on the new? If you still have issues, then it would eliminate the Samsung/PNY possible conflict. It's possible that the 2 different speed modules are causing the problem.

 

[tinpanalley]

Yeah, I tried that. Earlier today I ran a test ONLY running the new PNYs and it still crashed. I thought that maybe it wanted to have all four slots filled but I know that doesn't make sense. Then I tried to split them up and eventually that crashed as well.

 

[tinpanalley]

Ok, well, I'm stuck with the chips. PNY won't exchange them for another model. Only a replacement.

Back to square one.

 

[tinpanalley]

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[tinpanalley]

In case you're still there, I got these:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013NCJYS